Reposted by Jonny Mack⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 30/04/2023the more limiting of the state and empowering of the individual something is the more fascistier it is. i learned this in my polisci class 2322
Reposted by Jonny MackStef @stefdelev.bsky.social · 30/04/2023Tbh the dominant "crypto bad" narrative has always been really frustrating to me bcuz it almost always comes from a largely privileged American perspective, meanwhile millions of people throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America etc use it regularly 52810
Jonny Mack @nonlinear.bsky.social · 30/04/2023the nice thing about all the recent smooth brained crypto commentary is how much easier it is to find the real ones 030
Reposted by Jonny MackJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 30/04/2023that doesn’t mean blockchains are worthless (though i agree most apps don’t need a token). the user keys and merkle trees under the hood here are cryptographic primitives also used by blockchains — for atproto we recombined them in new ways that traded off some decentralization for efficiency. 511511
Reposted by Jonny Mack⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 30/04/2023see, the thing here is that all of the advancements worth paying attention to in distributed systems and cryptography are around "blockchain" and they have broad reaching and unpredictable applications. like any other emerging technology 1352
Jonny Mack @nonlinear.bsky.social · 30/04/2023never saw a bigger group of people who love decentralization but hate crypto 080
Jonny Mack @nonlinear.bsky.social · 28/04/2023love how welcoming and positive the bluesky community is bsky.app/profile/mattyglesias.bsky.… 120
Reposted by Jonny MackJosh Stark @0xstark.bsky.social · 28/04/2023a thing bsky seems to have going for it is that there are a lot of people who are wrong about things on it 271